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Bid to expand tax credits a giveaway to oil and gas industry
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A group of Senators today will reintroduce legislation aimed at expanding and extending tax credits for carbon capture and sequestration. Previous attempts to ex...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Donald Trump prepares for his trip to Germany for an expected showdown with G20 leaders on climate change just weeks after his pullout from the Paris Agreement, a report released today shows that the U.S. is providing $...

Trump continues his love affair with coal while ignoring climate science and the poor local communities hurt by U.S.-financed coal plants. Trump would violate an international agreement if he decided to allow the U.S. to once again finance the dir...

Big Oil and Gas poured millions into Trump’s inaugural committee, exerting more influence and control over administration
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Filings released today by the Federal Election Commission show that fossil fuel companies pour...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a visit today to the Environmental Protection Agency, Donald Trump will issue an Executive Order to undo climate policies put in place by President Obama, according to the administration. Included in today’s E...

Nearly one year after Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell called for a comprehensive review of the federal coal program, the Obama administration released a roadmap for reform of the federal coal program. The 190-page roadmap is a critical and ...

Senate Plays with Fire in Trying to Legislate Carbon Science and Give a Free Pass to Dirty Biomass and Coal
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate is poised to vote today on the controversial Energy Policy and Modernization Act (S. 2012) which ...

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We may only have days to stop the financing for a dangerous, proposed coal project in Indonesia already plagued by human rights violations. Our Japanese and Indonesian allies have asked the interna...

Earlier this year, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell called for “an honest and open conversation about modernizing the federal government’s coal program.” Today I am speaking at the Washington D.C. coal listening session to ...